Curtiss Grymala and Boon Sheridan are teaming up to bring you a workshop that promises to revolutionize your site design process.
They’ll show you ways your institution can rethink the challenges of design projects without getting bogged down or lost in the details. You’ll learn to “evolve”…

Personas are often cited as critical components of any project but, like most of life, there are layers of ‘yes, but’ when it comes to how to build, use, and maintain them for your project.
Even more importantly, they can take on so many shapes, sizes, and flavors it can be hard to figure o…

At first glance, the WordPress theme API can look like a large, unwieldy beast, but with that size and scale comes an unparallelled flexibility. During this session, we’ll run through a brief overview of the theme API and some of the handiest tips and tricks for developing your own WordPress…

During this session, Curtiss Grymala will run through some of the handiest tips and tricks for developing your own WordPress theme. Grymala will run through a series of functions and features you can use when developing your theme. This session assumes some basic knowledge of PHP and the Wor…

On first glance, the WordPress theme API can look like a large, unwieldy beast but with that size and scale comes an unparalleled flexibility. During this workshop, Curtiss Grymala will provide a brief primer on the WordPress theme API, then work with participants to convert a basic HTML tem…

Is WordPress the right CMS for your organization or company? Maybe, maybe not. Regardless, you should know what you're getting into (for better or worse) before you make that decision; and Curtiss is here to help you out with that.

While originally built as a blogging tool, WordPress has developed into a full-featured web application platform. Colleges and universities are using it as a content management system, social network, learning management system, and much more. This SIG will focus on how WordPress is gaining …

During this workshop, we will write a simple WordPress plugin. I will take you through the basic steps of creating the plugin file, including the proper header, and using some basic API functions available in WordPress. As part of the plugin, we'll develop a new shortcode to be used anywhere…

Allegheny College, Maryville University and University of Mary Washington are three completely different institutions with one thing in common: they are all using the world’s most popular blogging system as their content management system (CMS). Although all three institutions are using Word…

In addition to the freedom that WordPress offers to its users, it also offers a great deal of flexibility to its administrators and managers. One of the greatest features of WordPress is the ability to set up a multisite environment, allowing you to stand up an entirely new website in minute…

In addition to the freedom that WordPress offers to its users, it also offers a great deal of flexibility to its administrators and managers. One of the greatest features of WordPress is the ability to set up a multisite environment that allows you to stand up an entirely new website in a ma…

In addition to the freedom that WordPress offers to its users, it also offers a great deal of flexibility to its administrators and managers. One of the greatest features of WordPress is the ability to set up a multisite environment that allows you to stand up an entirely new website in a ma…

WordPress is an amazing and flexible tool, and becomes even more incredible when set up in a multisite environment. For many higher education institutions, though, even multisite is not broad enough to fit the information architecture of our websites. That's where Multi-Network comes into pl…

During this workshop, we will begin writing a very simple WordPress plugin. I will take you through the basic steps of creating the plugin file, including the proper header, and using some basic API functions available in WordPress.

In order to help avoid common coding errors, and improve the readability of code, the WordPress community has developed a set of standards to use when formatting the code you use when writing themes, plugins and even core code. Throughout this workshop, we'll review the various standards tha…

WordPress is an amazing and flexible tool, and becomes even more incredible when set up in a multisite environment.
For many higher education and other large institutions, though, even multisite is not broad enough to fit the information architecture of our websites.
That's where Multi-Netwo…

The University of Mary Washington’s web redesign effort is a daring institutional experiment in using real-time activities of faculty and students as primary brand drivers—expanding beyond re-framing activities through press releases, canned video, and “brochureware” narrative, to connect in…

Writing a WordPress plugin can be extremely simple, but it takes a little more work to write a good WordPress plugin. Learn five simple tips to make your WordPress plugin future-proof, work on more WordPress installations, and more easily extendable.

After submitting four unsuccessful RFPs for a new content management system for our college website, we reviewed our desired features and decided to build our own. Now, almost two years later, we are confident that we made the right decision for our institution.
This session will explore th…